Questions tagged [encryption]

I am using symmetric key encryption in SQL server but the problem is that if anyone has permissions to explore the database they can easily view certificates and symmetric keys and can therefore access encrypted data using these keys. How can this…

I'm very curious on how does TDE is implemented in practice. My goal is to get understanding on the usability constraint and possibility performance impact of applying such technique. Thus I'm trying to understand how does the database perform…

I've encrypted application name in my c# app using MD5, so when constructing the connection string the application name is passed to SQL as encrypted. I would like to decrypt in SQL server the value to see if there is a match? How can I get the…

I have an 11-year old huge database designed in Oracle 11g Standard Edition. It requires to be encrypted for maximum security. We have used dbms_crypto library to perform the encryption & decryption but it is consuming a lot of time decrypt &…